Gaston Lane
Gaston Lane was a French rugby union player. He was 1 m 68 cm tall and weighed 68 kg.
He played right wing three quarter for Racing club de France and for the French national team; at first he also played for AS Bois-Colombes then for the Paris Cosmopolitan Club.
He played in the first French international and was capped ten times, along with Marcel Communeau.
He was a tradesman. He was killed on the front in Moselle at the start of the First World War.
He was an excellent club rugby player, and also occasionally contributed articles to Sporting.Career
- Racing club de France
- Cosmopolitan Club, Paris
- AS Bois-Colombes
International
Gaston Lane was first selected for the French national team for the 1 January 1906 match against the All-Blacks, the first French Test match.Highlights
Club
- Second place in French national rugby championship, 1912 with Racing club de France, and captain, alongside Géo André and Pierre Failliot, who also played three quarters.
International
- 16 caps.
- 1 try.
- Caps by year: 2 in 1906, 1 in 1907, 2 in 1908, 3 in 1909, 2 in 1910, 2 in 1911, 3 in 1912, 1 in 1913.
- Participated in the first official France match against the All Blacks in their first European tour.
- Captain five times, and captain of the French first XV in the first Five Nations Championship, against Wales at Swansea in 1910.
- He was in 4 seasons of the Five Nations Championship in the pre-war period.
- First victory against a Home Nations team, Scotland, in the second French Five Nations Championship, in 1911.
